STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1260-04

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: S.B. No. 2842

S.D. 1

H.D. 3

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 2842, S.D. 1, H.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CHAPTER 846E, HAWAII REVISED STATUTES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to provide greater protection to children by:

(1) Defining child pornographers as sex offenders; and

(2) Making nonsubstantive amendments to various laws relating to sex offenders and registration for clarity and conformity.

The Attorney General, City and County of Honolulu Department of the Prosecuting Attorney, and Sex Abuse Treatment Center testified in support of this bill.

Your Committee has amended this bill by changing the effective date to July 1, 2010, to promote further discussion.

 

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2842, S.D. 1, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2842, S.D. 1, H.D. 3.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

 

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DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair